After Codename: Asero, Richard Gutierrez is taking avery short break from making television series. While on vacation from acting, however, the young actor will bebusy hosting GMA-7's newest program on "Bilib Ka Ba Nights" block, FullForce Nature, which will premiere on December 2 after GMA Telebabad.

The program immediately appealed to the young actor when thenetwork presented to him the idea of the show. Although its original version in the United States shows original videoclips of unbelievable weather moments, the Philippine version changes it a bitby choosing Richard, an advocate of environment, as the host.

As a Greenpeace celebrity spokeperson, the 24-year-oldactor will now have a wider venue to fulfill his role of spreading awarenessabout problems and issues concerning the environment. In between the video clips that will be shown, Richard will givesimple but very helpful tips to save mother earth.

The young actor said that Full Force Nature willdefinitely show the other side of Richard Gutierrez.

"I'm an active environmentalist and I wanna help alsothe group of Greenpeace and the other environmental groups. I think this is my calling, to createawareness for the people regarding global warming and other environmentalproblems," said Richard during the presscon of Full Force Nature last night, November 25.

GREENPEACE ADVOCATE. The young Gutierrez said that it was really his idea to helpgroups that support environmental causes, such as Green Peace.

"'Yon ang naging calling ko, e," he said. "I mean, for me, maraming different problemsna nangyayari sa mundo—number one is hunger, number two is overpopulation,number three is global warming. For me,global warming ang napili ko dahil talagang ever since I was a kid I lovenature. Siguro, I just had a calling forit. Siguro kanya-kanya tayong purposedito sa mundo and siguro 'yon ang purpose ko."

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As a celebrity spokesperson, Richard said that he helps thegroup with its non-violent moves in saving the environment. One example of this is creating informativevideos that will reach a lot of people around the country, like his pastdocumentary Signos.

Within the next few weeks, Richard will go to Boracay toshoot a video for the tourists who visit the place. Then, by next year, GMA-7 will be doing another documentarysimilar to Signos.

He reiterated, "Ang goal ko talaga is to create awareness sayouth, sa kabataan. So we're gonna goto different schools, that's one of my projects next year. Signos was somethinginformative. Signos, by the way,is now out on DVD. Hopefully, schoolscan watch that."